Funding for 9/11 cancer victims

Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesDeal over New York's 9/11 museum9/11 zoomable image'Freedom Tower' is NYC's tallest The US federal government has added about 50 types of cancer to the list of illnesses to be covered by a 9/11 health treatment programme.

The decision entitles 70,000 surviving emergency service workers and other survivors to free care.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety announced the change on the eve of the attacks' 11th anniversary.

Some 1,000 deaths have been linked to illnesses caused by toxic dust issuing from wreckage at Ground Zero.